 | Edwin Mims - 1905 - 430 psl.
...spirit of competition that says even when human life is involved, "Trade is only war grown miserly." Alas, for the poor to have some part In yon sweet living lands of art. Then the flute — Lanier's own flute, summing up the voices of nature, " all fair forms, and sounds,... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 926 psl.
...поЪЬт, »von they поЫог wives. And in the same poem rhyme and assonance are combined in : Vainly might Plato's brain revolve It ; Plainly the heart of a child could noire It. The placing of rhyming words in the verse structure varies with the different kinds or with... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1907 - 844 psl.
...wedging the poor — "Against an inward opening door That pressure tightens evermore," and sound the cry, "Alas, for the poor to have some part, In yon sweet living land of art." His song and his life are a splendid lesson for this needy time. The lesson that to be... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1909 - 236 psl.
...much gold from the Devil's bank-tills, To relieve, O God, what manner of ills?" In the same poem are: "Alas, for the poor to have some part In yon sweet...it : Plainly the heart of a child could solve it." At the conclusion of this general view of the evolution of endrhyme in various languages, a few words... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 psl.
...social sorrow for the overworked and downtrodden, he says the problem is not one for the head but the heart: — " Vainly might Plato's brain revolve it, Plainly the heart of a child could solve it." In ending the poem, he says that even " Music is Love in search of a word." Strong personal love, tender... | |
 | W. C. Smith - 1913 - 194 psl.
...Inhaling life from death, Thine epitaph writ fair in fruitage eloquent, Thyself thy monument. — Corn. Alas, for the poor to have some part In yon sweet...Plainly the heart of a child could solve it. — The Symphony. 'Tis a perfect hour. From founts of dawn the fluent autumn day Has rippled as a brook right... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 psl.
...business is battle, name it so: War-crimes less will shame it so, And widows less will blame it so. Alas, for the poor to have some part In yon sweet...it : Plainly the heart of a child could solve it." — Sidney Lamer. THE RAIN. The rain sounds like a laugh to me — A low laugh poured out limpidly.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1916 - 214 psl.
...eo 'Tis only war grown miserly. War-crimes less will shame it so, And widows less will blame it so. Alas, for the poor to have some part In yon sweet living lands of Art, os Makes problem not for head, but heart. Vainly might Plato's brain revolve it: Plainly the heart... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1917 - 584 psl.
...wedging the poor — "Against an inward opening door That pressure tightens evermore," and sound the cry, "Alas, for the poor to have some part, In yon sweet living land of art. ' ' His song and his life are a splendid lesson for this needy time. The lesson that to... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 psl.
...familiar love in human hearts can settle every social question when left to its own unselfish way : Vainly might Plato's brain revolve it, Plainly the heart of a child might solve it. The longer poems of Lanier are of uneven merit and are all more or less fragmentary.... | |
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Makes problem not for head, but heart. Vainly might Plato's brain revolve it: Plainly the heart of a child could solve it. 
